Re: PMC10 Q's

[Steve Ginn <sginn@airmail.net>]

on 3/22/01 6:12 PM, Gary Lehmann at relayonemanband@cts.com wrote:

> 
> Steve wrote:
> 
> 
>> Finally, has anyone ever  experienced a problem with the Memory either
>> becoming corrupted or from some strange reason completely full, and if 
>so
>> what can I do to prevent memory problems?
> 
> Funny you should mention this.
> I just experienced this:  I wanted to save my data and couldn't!  At 30k,
> the Data dump would not send--pressing enter would not send the data.  
>Oops.
> Deleted some files and everything fine.  Guess I found the limit  :>}
> The PMC stores all kinds of sysx so you could backup your synths to it or
> something.  It's a little squirrelly but so flexible and thanks to Sean 
>and
> his Raymond software, easy as pie to program and implement.  Which 
>brings me
> to:  corruption.  Back this puppy up to the max, as it will crash at the
> drop of a feather, leaving you with its default ROM settings.
> Gary
> 

Gary,

Thanks for the info.

You say to back it up.  How do you back it up so that it could be restored
at a gig?  Will the data fit on a palm pilot and if so, is there a way to
use the palm pilot as a back up device?  Or do you just need to have two in
case one fails?

Thanks,
Steve